Education Sector

Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center averts catastrophe from cyberattack

They could have headlined this story as “Good security practices pay off.” Michael P. Buffer reports: A cyber attack on a server at the Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center was discovered Wednesday, and antivirus and backup procedures “prevented a catastrophe” and “a lot of problems,” Administrative Director Anthony C. Guariglia said Thursday. The regional...

Highly sensitive files from Berkeley County Schools dumped by ransomware gang

In early February, Berkeley County Schools in West Virginia experienced a ransomware attack.  On March 3, the district issued a notice on its website that stated their investigation determined “some data stored in Berkeley County Schools’ network may have been accessed that included employee Social Security numbers and direct deposit information.” That notice makes...

UNC data leak exposes more than 1,000 Social Security numbers

WRAL reports: A data leak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has exposed more than 1,000 Social Security numbers. The university said human error played a role in tax forms that were sent to the wrong people. The leak happened in late January. It included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and...

SEC Charges Software Company Blackbaud Inc. for Misleading Disclosures About Ransomware Attack That Impacted Charitable Donors

Washington D.C., March 9, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Blackbaud Inc., a South Carolina-based public company that provides donor data management software to non-profit organizations, agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges for making misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware attack that impacted more than 13,000 customers. The...

Medusa claims responsibility for Minneapolis Public Schools’ “encryption event,” provides proof of how much data they accessed

There’s another update to the “encryption  event” first disclosed by Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) in February. As of their most recent last update, MPS had stated that they had been able to restore systems and no ransom had been paid. At that time, DataBreaches had not found any gang claiming responsibility for the breach...

Tennessee State, Southeastern Louisiana universities hit with cyberattacks

On March 2, Jonathan Greig reported: Two universities in Tennessee and Louisiana are struggling with cyberattacks that have crippled campus services and left students scrambling to find alternative tools. Tennessee State University — a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville — notified its more than 8,000 students on Wednesday that its IT systems...